Royal observers expect it to cover the controversial areas of his parenting, his mother’s death, his reportedly less than easy relationship with the Duchess of Cornwall and the emotionally fraught exit of Harry and Meghan as working royals with all the tensions with the palace guard at the time. But it can be assumed, anything considered defamatory – especially in light of racism accusations levelled by the couple – would undergo strict legal processing before publication. No members of the royal family are understood to have seen the manuscript. “So Harry himself may regret what he discovers he has said – given that the Sussexes appear to have dialled back on their hostility to the family.” Moehringer’s intense interviews with Harry will probably have mostly been conducted before the Sussexes’ public reconciliation with the royal family over the platinum jubilee, “at just about peak rage, with the chapters getting locked up some time ago,” said Lacey. “He does not write books that can be easily dismissed as scandal-seeking, They have substance.”
Therefore, one would anticipate the same sort of dual attack in what he writes about Harry and the monarchy,” said Lacey.
On Agassi, he not only demolished Agassi’s parenting and upbringing, he had a hard knock at the world of professional tennis. I am hoping will be analysing the institution as well. “One would anticipate a book that sets new standards in royal analysis. Lacey wonders if Moehringer’s pen can be detected in those words.
He told Dax Shepard in the Armchair Expert podcast, for example, of the “genetic pain” of being raised in the House of Windsor, and that Prince Charles had treated him “the way he was treated”. Harry has only said, on announcing his literary memoir last year, that it will be “the high and lows, the mistakes, the lessons learned … a first-hand account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful”.īut hints of what may emerge are in the Oprah Winfrey and other interviews he has given. The publishing date has been pushed back once, but it is on track for the end of the year.” He is going to do the business”.Ī publishing source told the Sun: “The manuscript has been finished and gone through all of the legal processes. “ It makes me think there is no point in even speculating what skeletons he’s going to uncover because he is a skeleton exhumer. The Agassi book “is profound, serious, a forensic demolition of his parenting, which goes beyond the normal ghostwritten books,” added Lacey. Novelist and journalist Moehringer, who ghostwrote the autobiography of former world No 1 tennis player Andre Agassi, “is a powerful and psychologically exploratory writer, so we can expect a powerful and psychologically exploratory book,” said the historian and royal biographer Robert Lacey. Yet royal observers expect it to be a serious book, and one not easily dismissed. ‘Covering his lifetime in the public eye from childhood to the present day, including his dedication to service, the military duty that twice took him to the frontlines of Afghanistan, and the joy he has found in being a husband and father, Prince Harry will offer an honest and captivating personal portrait, one that shows readers that behind everything they think they know lies an inspiring, courageous, and uplifting human story.From the prince, the palace, the publishers Penguin Random House, and the Pulitzer prize-winning ghostwriter, JR Moehringer, there has been silence. The Duke of Sussex, aged 36, is said to have been secretly working on the book for almost a year.Ī statement from publisher Random House said: ‘In an intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time, Prince Harry will share, for the very first time, the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him. Prince Harry is writing a book about his life in the Royal Family to be published in late 2022. It is not clear whether he will go into detail about the Megxit controversy (Picture: Getty Images / AP)